One of the more widely found complaints regarding safety professionals is that “they don’t talk about safety in terms that management can understand/embrace.” Personally, as a safety professional, I find that an easy excuse not to embrace safety MANAGEMENT, but I may be a bit biased since I am a safety professional and I have never had a management group accuse me of such nonsense. But as a consultant, I have heard that phrase many times; hence why I refer to my SMS as a “Safety Process.” In 1996, I learned all about Statistical Process Control (SPC), which was the mother of Six Sigma, which I fully embraced and eventually became a Black Belt in Six Sigma. This tool was a perfect fit for making safety part of a daily function within everything at a facility. The Six Sigma model is DMAIC:
This model/approach can be a significant first step toward LEADING INDICATORS. The model is exactly what each stage says:
